Human brain organogenesis: Toward a cellular understanding of development and disease

KW Kelley, SP Pașca - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The construction of the human nervous system is a distinctly complex although highly
regulated process. Human tissue inaccessibility has impeded a molecular understanding of …

Genetics of human brain development

Y Zhou, H Song, G Ming - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Brain development in humans is achieved through precise spatiotemporal genetic control,
the mechanisms of which remain largely elusive. Recently, integration of technological …

Generation of human striatal organoids and cortico-striatal assembloids from human pluripotent stem cells

Y Miura, MY Li, F Birey, K Ikeda, O Revah… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cortico-striatal projections are critical components of forebrain circuitry that regulate
motivated behaviors. To enable the study of the human cortico-striatal pathway and how its …

A connectomic study of a petascale fragment of human cerebral cortex

A Shapson-Coe, M Januszewski, DR Berger, A Pope… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
We acquired a rapidly preserved human surgical sample from the temporal lobe of the
cerebral cortex. We stained a 1 mm3 volume with heavy metals, embedded it in resin, cut …

[HTML][HTML] A cross-disorder dosage sensitivity map of the human genome

RL Collins, JT Glessner, E Porcu, M Lepamets… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Rare copy-number variants (rCNVs) include deletions and duplications that occur
infrequently in the global human population and can confer substantial risk for disease. In …

Prefrontal–amygdala circuits in social decision-making

P Gangopadhyay, M Chawla, O Dal Monte… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
An increasing amount of research effort is being directed toward investigating the neural
bases of social cognition from a systems neuroscience perspective. Evidence from multiple …

Prenatal interleukin 6 elevation increases glutamatergic synapse density and disrupts hippocampal connectivity in offspring

F Mirabella, G Desiato, S Mancinelli, G Fossati… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
Early prenatal inflammatory conditions are thought to be a risk factor for different
neurodevelopmental disorders. Maternal interleukin-6 (IL-6) elevation during pregnancy …

A standardized social preference protocol for measuring social deficits in mouse models of autism

B Rein, K Ma, Z Yan - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by social
communication deficits and other behavioral abnormalities. The three-chamber social …

Sequence diversity analyses of an improved rhesus macaque genome enhance its biomedical utility

WC Warren, RA Harris, M Haukness, IT Fiddes… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) is one of the most widely used
nonhuman primate (NHP) models for studying human biology and disease. As a …

[HTML][HTML] The neurobiology of social play behaviour: past, present and future

EJM Achterberg, LJMJ Vanderschuren - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2023 - Elsevier
Social play behaviour is a highly energetic and rewarding activity that is of great importance
for the development of brain and behaviour. Social play is abundant during the juvenile and …